Colin Beales Email & Phone Number

Colin Beales is a Director - Field Services (NEMEA) at GitHub. He possess expertise in tfs, .net, scrum, software development, c# and 45 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "I’ve known Colin ever since I first joined Microsoft, we sat next to each other working in the Visual C++ support team, debugging customer problems and occasionally finding bugs in either Windows or the C runtime library, but mainly just fixing bugs in customer code. Colin and I then both moved into the Premier Support for Developers team working as Application Development Consultants, this wasn’t a new experience for me from my years as a contractor, although this was for Colin, but he excelled at not just in handling the huge mix of technologies and architectures, but also handling the very difficult customer relationships that goes with the territory. Over the years I’ve seen Colin pick up new technologies incredibly quickly and become the team expert for a mixture of technologies. I think his greatest achievement was to start The Test Factory. Starting an ISV from scratch is an amazing achievement, but to start it and keep it going through a recession is nothing short of incredible. Colin has provided great support to me over the years and has an uncanny knack of knowing just how to handle very difficult situations while remaining incredibly calm throughout, a wise head on relatively young shoulders ;-)" and "Colin was one of my key contacts within the Application Developer Consultant groups at Microsoft - we had a big task of recruiting a number of strong ADCs for the business over a relatively short period of time. Colin was a great business partner to work with, as his huge technical knowledge coupled with his commercial awareness meant that he was able to look at the detail as well as see the bigger picture. He was a great advocate of new initiatives and was very responsive & approachable. He played a key part in the success of the ADC recruitment success from late 2006 to early 2008. I enjoyed working with Colin and would have no hesitation in recommending him or his ADC services to anyone - he is a real advocate of best practice and trialling new initiatives."

Listed skills include Tfs, .Net, Scrum, Software Development, and 46 others.